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Always keep an offsite backup.
by d0lph 8y ago
Always keep an offsite backup.
- vkou 8y agoIf keeping an offsite backup only let you back up 0.001% of your data, and cost you 1x of your annual revenue, your employer wouldn't keep one either.
- rossdavidh 8y agoI would say it's more like keeping a zip file of your data. It may not be as usable, but if you lose your primary you can reinflate it and it will do just fine.
- bdamm 8y agoThe water bears can re-inflate and the future of life on earth will be some other evolutionary tract. No worries mate. Why is humanity so important anyway?
- limaoscarjuliet 8y agoIt's the towels.
- chriskanan 8y agoSome theories posit that Earth may contain the only life nearby (or possibly in the universe) [0]. Since we are the only space faring species on our planet, the water bears would need our help to preserve their genetic record. Life on Earth has less than 2 billion years left, but the universe in general has a lot more than that left. https://www.space.com/41080-alien-life-may-be-rare-today.html https://www.space.com/41080-alien-life-may-be-rare-today.htm...
- posting2fast 8y agoNot if you the data loss is caused by an error or virus in the software, and you use that same software to access your "backup".
- cm2187 8y agoIf we die, does it matter to us than the human species survives somewhere? Like if it’s not going to protect me, why should it matter that much to me that I should support the effort?
- Anarch157a 8y agoOur data is in our DNA. A population of a few thousand would pretty much guarantee a 100% backup.
- vkou 8y agoSo, it's not a backup. It's a document containing basic instructions for how to eventually build a database that's similar to your PROD copy. I wouldn't pay through the nose for that, either. Especially when we could be putting that time and energy into not losing the PROD deployment, today, with a much better ROI. We don't need to worry about hypothetical 50-million year meteor strike extinction events. We're in the middle of one, that we could be taking action to deal with - for much less the cost of a self-sufficient Mars base. You're worried about off-site backups, when the trash can in the data center is on fire, and you cant budget for a fire extinguisher.
- enraged_camel 8y ago>>I wouldn't pay through the nose for that, either. Especially when we could be putting that time and energy into not losing the PROD deployment, today, with a much better ROI. There are certain types of disasters you can't protect against though, no matter how much money you spend. The only thing you can do is mitigate.
- d0lph 8y agoA backup of humanity.